Textile boarding apparatus



F. M. SOUTHERLAND 2,837,832

TEXTILE BOARDING APPARATUS June 10, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 19,1955

INFRA RED HEATERS INVENTOR. FRANCIS M. SOUTHERLAND ATTORNEY June 10, 1958 F. M. SOUTHERLAND 2,337,832

TEXTILE BOARDING APPARATUS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 19, 1955 INVENTOR. FRANCIS M. SOUTHERLAND BY m 1 ATTORNEY United States Patent TEXTILE BOARDING APPARATUS Francis M. Southerland, Mebane, N. C., assignor of onehaif to Weldon E. Rascoe, Mebane, N. C.

Application August 19, 1955, Serial No. 529,560 2 Claims. (Cl. 34-103) The present invention relates to hosiery boarding and presetting apparatus and more particularly to an improved movable boarding member for use in boarding and presetting machines of the general type as described in the copending patent application of Francis M. Southerland, Serial No. 472,287 filed December 1, 1954, and entitled Method and Apparatus for Boarding and Presetting Textiles, now Patent No. 2,745,191, of May 15, 1956.

As disclosed in the above-mentioned patent application, a hosiery boarding and presetting machine is provided with a movable member such as a wheel or the like having a plurality of hosiery drying forms known to the trade as boards. The movable member or wheel is arranged to be rotated or otherwise moved to thereby position successive boards at suitable heating zones for predetermined lengths of time in order to effect the desired preset for the hosiery mounted on the boards. For many years, steam heated hosiery forms or boards have been used for drying hosiery and these boards were arranged to be detachably secured to a steam pipe or the like such as shown in the U. S. patent to Prosser et al., No. 1,908,547, issued November 13, 1934.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved movable boarding member arranged to use detachable hosiery boards.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved boarding and presetting machine having a movable board supporting member to which the previously known and used steam boards may be detachably secured.

Further objects, features and the attending advantages of the invention will be apparent with reference to the following specification and drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly broken away to show a boarding machine with the board holding member of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the movable board supporting hub;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section of the periphery of the boarding hub with a board secured thereto.

Referring first to Fig. 1 of the drawings, the boarding machine, as more particularly described in the aforementioned copending patent application Serial No. 472,287, now Patent No. 2,745,191, may include a cabinet having two heating zones therein as provided by the infra red heaters 11 and 12. In accordance with the invention, a plurality of so-called hosiery boards or drying forms such as 13-20 are removably secured to the movable hub 21. The hub 21 is moved in any suitable manner to suecessively position each of the boards 13-20 in the heating zones as provided by the infra red heaters 11 and 12.

2,837,832 Patented June 10, 1958 Of course, the invention is not limited to a particular type of heater nor is a specific means of moving the boarding hub 21 disclosed for purposes of describing the present invention since any suitable hub moving means may be used.

Each of the hosiery boards 13-20, as more clearly seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings, is provided with a hosiery form portion 25 and a base portion 26. As more clearly seen in Figs. 2-4 of the drawings, the polygonal shaped movable member or wheel hub 21 is provided with a periphery that is divided into straght segmental portions 27-34. To each segmental peripheral portion, a respective one of the hosiery boards 13-20 may be detachably secured, and threaded studs such as shown at 35, 36 together with nuts such as shown at 37, 38 may be provided for such purpose.

It will be noted that the surface of each peripheral .segment portion 27-34 is specially shaped as at 40 and that the bottom surface of the base member 26 of each hosiery board is also specially shaped as shown at 41 to complement the shape of surface 40. In the preferred form of the invention, the specially shaped surface 40 has been shown to provide a generally semi-circular cross-section for each peripheral segment 27-34 of the boarding wheel since it is known that the old and already existing steam drying boards are provided with similar complementary semi-circular shapes for the bottom surfaces of their base members for purposes of atachment to the outside surface of a steam pipe. Although the present invention is not intended to be limited to such semi-circular cross-section, when such cross-section is provided for each peripheral segment, the old and previously existing steam drying hosiery boards may be used in the modern type of boarding machine as shown and described above in connection with Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Various modifications may be made within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A hosiery boarding and presetting device comprising, a wheel having a polygonal periphery comprising a plurality of straight portions, each of said portions having a peripheral surface adapted to define a generally semicircular cross-section, a plurality of hosiery boards, each of said hosiery boards having a base portion with a bottom surface of generally semi-circular cross-section complementing the peripheral surface of the straight portions of said wheel, and means for detachably securing the base of each of said hosiery boards to a respective peripheral striaght portion of said wheel.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1 further characterized in that said means includes screw-threaded studs extending outwardly from the periphery of said straight portions which studs extend through the base portion of said boards. 

